McMurtry, Larry

Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West [Signed]

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First Edition. 8vo; Tan and red paper boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket in white and bronze, unclipped with $26.00 price. Full number line. Signed by Larry McMurtry on title page; 414pp. A few light smudges to dustjacket, but no structural blemishes. Boards are clean and undamaged with square corners. Interior is spotless. 

Twenty stories that collectively offer a view of "the coming of age" of the American frontier. Introduction by Larry McMurtry. Authors, whose stories appear in this collection, include (in order of appearance): Wallace Stegner, Dave Hickey, Dao Strom, Dagoberto Gilb, William Hauptman, Jack Kerouac, Ron Hansen, Diana Ossana, Robert Boswell, Tom McGuane, Louise Erdrich, Max Apple, Mark Jude Poirier, Rick Bass, Jon Billman, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Annie Proulx, Leslie Marmon Silko, and William H. Gass. The Annie Proulx story is Brokeback Mountain, adapted for the screen by McMurtry and Diana Ossana (another contributor to this collection), for which they won an Oscar.

. F / NF. Item #393
ISBN: 0684868822

Price: $100.00